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Middle School North
Test scores
M-STEP 2024-25 . % Advanced + ProficientWhat this means: On the M-STEP, Michigan's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Michigan schools, those numbers are about 48 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Michigan schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Michigan's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Middle School North
Middle School North operates as a reasonably sized junior high in MACOMB, Michigan, one of the schools within L'Anse Creuse Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 618 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 502 students per school, that is 23% above typical.
L'Anse Creuse Public Schools comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 9,090 students; Middle School North is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Middle School North reports that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Macomb County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 31% of students at Middle School North qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Macomb County's rate of about 52%.
With demographic context factored in, Middle School North sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.7%; this one delivers 41.2%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Macomb County) shows that median household earnings sit near $77,837, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Macomb County runs 236 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,743 students), of which Middle School North is one.
High School North is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Middle School North comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Over the past 7-year window. Middle School North's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 719 (now 618). The White share of enrollment fell from 83% to 78% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.
On the community side, the feed for Middle School North typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Macomb County at a glance
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